Paltothyreus tarsatus

Papierok B, Charpentie M-J. Les champignons se developpant en Cote-d Ivoire sur la fourmi Paltothyreus tarsatus F. Relation entre l hyphomycete Tilachlidiopsis catenulata sp. nov. et l ascomycete Cordyceps myrmecophila Cesati 1846. Mycotaxon 14 351-368, 1982. 

Casnati, G., Ricca, A. and Pavan, M. (1967) Sulla secrezione difensiva delle glandole mandibolari Paltothyreus tarsatus (Fabr.). Chimica Indica (Milano)y 49y 57-61. 

Sometimes double or even triple labelling can be useful. Some poner-ine ants have dimethyl disulphide in their mandibular glands. Crewe and Ross Insect Biochemistry, 1975, 5,839) used doubly labelled methionine to show that the methyl and sulphur were incorporated together into the dimethyl disulphide by Paltothyreus tarsatus ants (Figure 5.5). 

The ponerine ant, Paltothyreus tarsatus, produces various alkyl sulfides in its mandibular glands (471, 472). With the use of doubly labelled methionine, it has been established that the CHs-S-group is incorporated intact but the origin of the third sulfur atom in dimethyl trisulfide remains unknown (473, 474). 

Casnati, G., a. Ricca, and M. Pa van Sulla secrezione defensiva delle glandole mandibulari di Paltothyreus tarsatus. Chemica Ind., Milano 49, 57—58 (1967). 

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